The age of Elizabeth in the age of Johnson

The age of Elizabeth in the age of Johnson / Jack Lynch.

"In The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the...

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Main Author: Lynch, Jack (John T.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
1500-1799
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Renaissance > England > Historiography.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
HISTORY.
Historiography
Intellectual life
Literature and history
Renaissance > Historiography
Geschiedschrijving.
Renaissance.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603 > Historiography.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
England
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic
  • 2. Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age
  • 3. Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians
  • 4. The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability
  • 5. The ground-work of stile: language and national identity
  • 6. Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress
  • 7. The last age: Renaissance lost.

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